Thursday 5 February 2015

How to run Linux inside Windows using VirtualBox in 7 steps


Friends today i tell you How to run linux OS on Windows.There are only 7 steps.

1. Go to http://virtualboxes.org/images/ damn-small/  where you’ll find VirtualBox
virtual machines for several versions of DSL.
Download the latest version which is a Zip
archive and extract the files it contains.
You’ll get two folders called Machines and
VDI, the latter of which contains the virtual
machine file.
2. Start up VM VirtualBox and on the main
window click on the Create icon, just as you
did to create the Windows 8 virtual machine.
Enter ‘DSL’ as the name of your new virtual
machine and you’ll notice that Type and
Version update accordingly. Click on Next.
3. In the next dialogue box you’ll be asked
how much memory to allocate to the virtual
machine and you should accept the default
by just clicking on Next.
4. Next you’ll be given several options
regarding the virtual hard disk. Select ‘Use an
existing virtual hard drive’, click on the folder
icon to its right, select the VDI file that you
downloaded from the Web, click on Open and
then, back at the ‘Create Virtual Machine’
dialogue box, click on Create.
5. Your virtual machine will now be created
and this will be reflected by the fact that the
name of ‘DSL’ appears at the left hand part
of the VM VirtualBox main windows and
details are shown to the right. You’ll notice
that that the DSL virtual machine is shown
as Powered Off so start it up by clicking on
the Start icon.

6. A second window appears – this is the
screen of your virtual machine. If various
error and information boxes appear just
accept them. DSL will start and you’ll be
asked to login. Do so using the username
‘dsl’ and the password ‘reverse’.
7. Once logged in the DSL main screen will
appear just as if you’d installed DSL on your
PC’s hard disk instead of Windows. You can
explore the OS while, at the same time,
experiencing the wonders of virtualisation
which has made this possible. When you’re
done, just select Close from VM VirtualBox’s
Machine menu to shut down the virtual
machine just like a real machine running
DSL. All your settings and files will be saved
for next time you start up this virtualbox.

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